From the CEO of CollabNet

Flint Brenton

Mr. Flint Brenton has extensive experience building successful software companies, with a proven track record of accelerating growth through innovation and sales execution. He is currently CEO of CollabNet, a Vector Capital-owned leader in open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). He also serves as an operating partner at Vector, advancing its position as a transformational partner to technology businesses. Mr. Brenton is a member of the Software & Services Division (SSD), and is on the board of directors for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).
Previously, Mr. Brenton served as president and CEO of AccelOps, a provider of IT operations analytics for cloud and virtualized infrastructures. Prior to that, he served as president and CEO of Tidal Software, a leader in application automation software. At both AccelOps and Tidal Software, Mr. Brenton more than tripled sales under his leadership while focusing both companies on disruptive product introductions. Tidal Software was later acquired by Cisco and Mr. Brenton served in follow-on capacities there, including vice president of advanced services, and senior vice president of engineering for Cisco's cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. He also has held leadership positions at NetIQ, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software and IBM. He received a master's in business and public management from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Union College.

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respected thinker in our field and covers major trends. We spoke about the
emergence of BizDevOps and its implications for businesses.
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article, "BizDevOps: Here's how to make it happen in your organization."
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challenges, and what makes the BizDevOps pipeline flow.
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but getting team buy-in and creating the cultural shift to make BizDevOps run
are not easy tasks.
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and most accurate resources and information. In order to help the software
development community, and to further our own learning, we reached out to
leading industry analysts and asked them about an increasingly popular tenet
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more daunting every day. Today, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
platforms are proving most valuable by providing the governance, management
and coordination for every stage of development, deployment and release.
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I recently hosted a webinar on Enterprise Software Development in Pursuit
of Excellence that covers best practices for developing enterprise software
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